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On foot, quite happily. Except when riding in goat- or mule-drawn carts for transporting-goods reasons, or sledges in winter snow.
As I wrote in Volo’s Guide To Cormyr (although an editor removed all the commas between the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 17, 2021
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…place names in that sentence), Redspring lies in “ideal grazing country because of their numerous ponds and rivulets, and so numerous shepherds and keepers of herds of goats, cattle, and other herd animals have come to live… 3)
…here over the years.”
Which should make it obvious that it doesn’t lie in the Stonelands proper. The term “Stonelands” is used locally in upland/back country Cormyr specifically to mean the terrain of knife-edge exposed…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 17, 2021
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…Stonelands may be a big east-west band that marks where the settled realm ends, on the north, but to folk in Eveningstar and Arabel, things are more nuanced.
So there are fingers of topsoil-covered terrain reaching north into… 6)
…the Stonelands in several places. Redspring is in one of them. It stands in well-watered (many springs rising, and flowing down and out of it), hilly but with topsoil, ranching country.
Hillmarch is also located in the same…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 17, 2021
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…sort of countryside: rolling hills, with very little level ground, but topsoil and not bare rock ridges. There are exposed rock faces (cliffs your sheep can fall over) here and there, but plenty of wild grass-covered dirt to… 8)
…walk around on.
Redspring gets its name from the reddish hue of the springs that rise in it (the local drinking water), which is red due to a lot of dissolved iron from the rocks beneath. If there weren’t richer, better iron…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 17, 2021
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…deposits much farther south and closer to the coast, there’d likely be iron mines near Redspring. As it is, it’s ranching country, shipping wool and mutton, goats and goat-milk cheese, and smoked, salted sides of beef south 10)
…to the heart of Cormyr, and east to the Dales and Moonsea lands.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 17, 2021
